FALL RIVER — A judge has granted former Patriots tight end Aaron Hernandez’s request to be transferred from the Bristol County House of Correction to a jail closer to Boston, where his three defense lawyers have their offices.

Prosecutors did not object to the defense team’s transfer request during a hearing Monday in Fall River Superior Court that featured discussion on a handful of other topics related to Hernandez’s murder case in Bristol County, including whether it will be necessary to reschedule the trial date, which is tentatively set for Oct. 6.

Bristol County District Attorney Samuel Sutter said outside the courthouse that prosecutors are “ready to go right now," but defense attorney James Sultan said he could not guarantee the defense team would be prepared by Oct. 6, given recent “voluminous” discovery materials and motions they may yet file.

“There are certainly more motions in the pipeline. I’m pretty certain about that,” Sultan said, adding that he also anticipates the defense team will ask for a change of venue when the case reaches trial. In previous court filings, Hernandez’s lawyers have accused prosecutors of poisoning the jury pool against their client.

Hernandez — dressed in khakis, a dress shirt, dark blazer and pink tie — entered the courtroom Monday and smiled at his mother and older brother, DJ Hernandez, an assistant football coach at the University of Iowa who made his first appearance in Fall River since the former Patriots star’s indictment on murder and firearm charges last summer.

Prosecutors allege Aaron Hernandez, 24, orchestrated the June 2013 murder of Odin Lloyd in the North Attleborough Industrial Park, two nights after the two men had a disagreement at a Boston nightclub. Lloyd, 27, of Dorchester, was shot five times with a .45-caliber handgun. Two alleged accomplices — Carlos Ortiz and Ernest Wallace — are also charged with murder.

Since his arrest last summer, Hernandez has been held without bail at the Bristol County House of Correction in Dartmouth. His lawyers asked for the transfer primarily to be able to visit him in jail more often, although, in court documents, they also accused the Bristol County Sheriff’s Office of conspiring with prosecutors and “exploiting” Hernandez for publicity. The attorneys did not revisit those arguments Monday.

The high-profile case has generated significant national media coverage that prompted Judge E. Susan Garsh to issue a gag order on both sides. On Monday, Garsh asked the attorneys for their thoughts on a questionnaire that prospective jurors would be asked to fill out prior to trial. Hernandez’s lawyers said such a questionnaire is “critical.”

In other matters, Garsh approved Hernandez’s request to subpoena several television news stations for unedited footage showing Massachusetts State Police troopers executing a search warrant at Hernandez’s North Attleborough home on June 18, 2013.

Page 2 of 3 - Hernandez’s lawyers say the footage will contradict a trooper’s testimony last month that he served the warrant and that he was carrying a manila file folder containing the original warrant, a copy of the warrant and an affidavit filed in application. The defense team is trying to suppress home surveillance system footage and information on two cellphones and three iPad tablets that police seized from the house for lack of probable cause.

Also at issue is whether the search warrant authorized police to take the cellphones and iPads because they were GPS-capable. The affidavit filed in application with the warrant mentions that detectives wanted to review Hernandez’s GPS records, but the actual search warrant does not mention a GPS among the items to be seized.

Garsh has asked whether the affidavit was attached to the warrant when a clerk magistrate signed it and when police executed it at Hernandez’s home. The television news stations have until July 21 to comply with the subpoena.

Garsh also asked several pointed questions toward prosecutors about why state police troopers examined cellphones that were not explicitly mentioned in the search warrant. The hearing over the evidentiary dispute will resume on Aug. 11, at which point Garsh is also expected to set a definitive trial date.

Garsh expressed concern about the holidays delaying the trial — which is expected to last at least eight weeks — if it were to begin in October. She also ordered prosecutors and defense attorneys to submit written memorandums, within seven days, for their thoughts on when the trial may realistically be expected to begin.

Meanwhile, Hernandez’s lawyers are also scheduled to return to court Wednesday for a hearing related to their request that the New England Patriots provide them with “any and all” internal team records about Hernandez, including medical documents, psychological test results and any drug or alcohol abuse-related records.

Hernandez’s lawyers said the Patriots’ records may bear upon Hernandez’s circumstances and state of mind prior to Lloyd’s murder. The defense team said it has been “in communication” with the Patriots’ attorneys but added that they had not been able to reach an agreement.

Earlier on Monday, attorneys representing Wallace and Tanya Singleton, Hernandez’s cousin who is charged with contempt and conspiracy to commit accessory after the fact, appeared for status hearings in superior court. The attorneys waived the presences of Wallace and Singleton, who has been battling a recurrence of breast cancer.

In Singleton’s case, prosecutors agreed to hand over discovery materials, and a bill of particulars, by Friday. Singleton has another hearing scheduled next Monday for lawyers to discuss the need for future motions, and to confirm a tentative August trial date for her contempt case, in which she is accused of refusing to testify before a grand jury last summer.

Page 3 of 3 - Lawyers hinted at the possibility that Singleton might change her plea to the contempt charge, though she is also charged with conspiracy to commit accessory after the fact for allegedly trying to help Wallace and Ortiz flee Massachusetts after Lloyd’s murder.

Wallace’s attorney was given a Sept. 22 deadline to file discovery-related and nonevidentiary motions. Wallace’s next scheduled court date is an Oct. 24 pretrial hearing.